No serious musician and no serious orchestra can ignore this new Urtext edition of a major work of concerto literature, since the music text frequently diverges from that of previous editions. All the sources were meticulously examined, text-critically evaluated and documented for the very first time. The editing and marking of the solo parts by Tabea Zimmermann and Frank Peter Zimmermann are a crowning point in this co-production with Breitkopf & Härtel.﻿

Whatever the performer’s taste, this edition is recommended as a substitute for all previous editions, although, as we have seen, Urtext is not an easy option, and much work still has to go into creating each performance, with (thank goodness!) the result that no two performances are ever likely to be the same.[News & Views, 2007]